Q1) How fast do nodes receive and store data after being set up? Q2) What is the expected profitability, considering factors like storage utilization, payout rates, and network demand?

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This gets asked quite often: but if I had to give an answer to a friend, right now, I’d say: It would be reasonable to assume you could fill 3TB of space per year Given that you’ll always be holding some trash, maybe estimate making $1.40usd/used-TB/month (after clearing the withholding period) I’…

… use the largest drive you have except probably not over 20TB or so because realistically a single node can’t fill up much more than that (max theoretical size based on bloom filters / garbage cleanup is 24TB i believe).

[image] Tarun786: What is the expected profitability Profitability was possible in the past when payment rates were much higher. A new node will likely never ROI.

Depends on location. Around 3-5TB/year I’d say. Node payouts are 100% profit. The idea being is that they are supposed to be run to share existing underutilized, surplus capacity. An alternative to running a node is wasting that capacity and not being paid. Therefore whatever node pays is 100% prof…

There is no maximum per se, but there is a equilibrium point between uploads and deletions, and it’s dynamic.

For me, only systems with >7TB paid/month are making a profit, because the energy is so expensive. So at least 1 year to get there. ROI? :rofl: I don’t think about that… :cold_sweat:

[image] EasyRhino: use the largest drive you have except probably not over 20TB or so because realistically a single node can’t fill up much more than that I’m going to suggest the opposite. I have 3-year-old nodes with less than 10TB and they’re now stalled due to trash data deletion outpaci…

[image] agente: trash data deletion outpacing new data growth This is on purpose — it’s a prolonged deletion of old free tier accounts. Perhaps storj decided to match it with growth to avoid payout drops to node operators. It’s a good thing. At some point all data from those orphaned accounts…

[image] agente: [image] EasyRhino: use the largest drive you have except probably not over 20TB or so because realistically a single node can’t fill up much more than that I’m going to suggest the opposite. I have 3-year-old nodes with less than 10TB and they’re now stalled due to trash d…

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LxdrJ February 24, 2025, 7:54pm 2

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